Sometimes a speaker likes to show he "gets" his audience by mentioning some local in-joke or popular person in the community.

有时候，演讲者会讲述一些圈内的笑话或者圈内的知名人物，表明自己“跟听众是一伙的”。

youdao

The wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel.

狼以为他是在开玩笑，一天晚上来取美味的食物。

youdao

Historians tend to tell the same joke when they are describing history education in America.

历史学家在描述美国的历史教育时，往往会讲同样的笑话。

youdao

Most of what people--what made people laugh wasn't in any sense a joke or humorous.

大部份让人笑的原因,并不是玩笑或幽默。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Unfortunately, it didn't work very well because people started bickering in his town and the New Harmony became kind of a joke-- it was not a harmonious community.

但不幸的是，这座村落发展得并不顺利,矛盾争执丛生,新和谐村成了笑谈-,因为已经无谓和谐了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Without the novelty of a CEO getting drowned out by his own product (with an in-joke to boot), this ad simply showed someone blowing off her real-world relatives for her more exciting friends doing more exciting things.

FORBES: How Charming! New Facebook Home Ad Celebrates Being Rude At The Dinner Table

If men are the only group one can joke about exterminating, perhaps it means that we really do live in a male-dominated culture--one in which men are the only group about which such a joke runs no risk of being taken seriously.

WSJ: Best of the Web Today

So common were attempts by various factions of the army to usurp power - 17 coup attempts in all - that Thailand's struggling democracy became a joke.

CNN: A Fresh Approach